RED RIVER DROPS SLIGHTLY, BUT STILL HIGH

The swollen Red River dropped slowly on Sunday along the Minnesota-North Dakota state line, where cities have frantically reinforced dikes against flooding.

However, the river is expected to stay high and above flood stage for several days, said Lynn Kennedy, a senior hydrological technician for the National Weather Service.

Elsewhere across the Midwest, several communities in Minnesota waited to see if their sandbag levees would hold as the Minnesota and other rivers continued rising. Residents along Iowa's Mississippi River shore also started sandbagging.